Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club
Hamfest
Hamfest 2008
SBARC Hamfest Flyer (includes
schedule, map, and registration)
THE GREAT SBARC HAMFEST AND FAMILY REUNION FOR
2008—UPDATED
by Dave Hackleman, K6VML, Hamfest Chair
This year the Hamfest is Sunday, August 10, 8:30 am to
2:30 pm, outdoors on the grounds of Elks Lodge #613 in Goleta, located
at 150 N. Kellogg Avenue, just off Calle Real between Patterson and Fairview.
The parking lot has abundant space for our swap tables, as well as lots
of parking space. When you arrive, please park on the mountain side of
the building. The other side is reserved for Elks members. Overflow parking
will be readily available on nearby streets.
Vendors and swappers, we want you! Come as early as you like and take
all the time you need to set up. Call Dave K6VML at 805-967-9313 or
to reserve parking spaces in the swap area. The first space is free, additional
are $10 each. If you don’t reserve a space we may not be able to
put you in the swap area, but you can still sell from your tailgate anywhere
in the parking lot.
The Elks Grove offers a beautiful, shady area for eyeball
QSO’s with lots of picnic tables, a barbecue pit for the tri-tip
and chicken barbecue, a drinks station, and games for young and old including—of
course!—the Transformer Toss and QLF Contest. As always, bring your
QSL card—plain, fancy, or whatever—and fill up Darryl KF6DI’s
bulletin board with them. Our expert panel will judge them, and game and
QSL card contest winners all get nice prizes.
We will have a Transmitter Hunt open to all to participate—novice
and veteran T-hunters alike. The winner gets an especially nice prize.
And as always we will have a VE Session, after which you can enjoy the
Hamfest!—contact Darryl at 805-969-2326 to preregister. See the
flier on our website for more details. An ARRL representative or two will
be on hand. Get to know them and let them know your views. And check out
what’s new at the SBARC Bookstore.
We are very glad to welcome back Eric Christensen K6EJC
from Ham Radio Outlet in Burbank. Check out the store’s
catalog at www.hamradio.com.
You say you wish you could buy various lengths of coax with the PL-259
connectors already installed? They’ve got ‘em in the store
waiting!
Roger KD6CNY and Kim Deane of Wired Communications
in Scottsdale, Arizona will return with their wide assortment of connectors
and cables. Chances are they have adapters you never knew existed! Look
for them at www.wiredco.com.
Sal N6SPD and Dorothy De Franco from Avanti Activewear
in the Monterey area will also return and provide personalized mugs, T-shirts,
caps, and badges with your call or whatever you like on them. A cap is
waiting with your name on it hi hi! Look them up at www.avantiactivewear.com.
Niel Borden of Global Imports in Orange
County is returning with his LED flashlights, including a 5 watt LED and
7 watt rechargeable light, batteries, high quality green laser pointers
(useful for the stargazers among us), magnifiers, toys, and so much more!
We enjoyed having him last year and so did the kids!
A big welcome this year to Jim of the DX Store,
coming from out Whittier way. You’ve heard of it before. Check out
their website at www.dxstore.com
where you will find antennas, wattmeters, Vibroplex keys, plus a whole
lot more for DXers, and who isn’t one?\
NDF Computer Surplus, from Garden Grove,
will be here with great bargains including popular educational, children’s,
and game software. Not to mention DVD movies for all ages, accessories,
and more. See them all at www.ndfcompsurplus.com.
Swiech Communications Systems comes
to us from Temecula. Some of you may remember Gene Swiech was our guest
speaker at a club meeting some years back. One of his offerings is a very
affordable VHF beam, and he also makes excellent DF’ing antennas.
Tell him what you need and he may have it or he’ll make it for you!
And now for something completely different—the
Alternative Craft demonstration. Santa Barbara’s own Jeanne Sayre
will demonstrate how anyone can paint surprisingly beautiful flowers or
other objects using single brushstrokes. (Guys, if you want to try it,
it’s okay.)
Continuing with demonstrations, Pat and Chuck McPartlin
and others from the local astronomy club, the Astronomical Unit
(www.sbau.org), will
return with their solar telescopes set up for public viewing. Come by
and see what ol’ Sol is up to. This time you just might see sunspots
in the upper latitudes from Cycle 24.
Dan (N6PEQ) and Kristin (K6PEQ) Dankert will be on hand
to demonstrate the newest ICOM HF rigs. He will put them on the air and
let you have at it. Will he bring the IC-7000? The IC-756 Pro III? Or
even the IC-7800? Stop by their booth and find out! You’ll find
Dan’s product reviews and some very interesting links at www.n6peq.com.
Rod Fritz WB9KMO will again have our ever-popular Amateur
Television and Robots demonstration. There’s always something new
in ATV, whether it’s repeaters, equipment, or just finding better
ways to do things. Rod will tell you how you can do ATV whatever your
budget. For more info and to watch some interesting videos Rod put together
go to www.youtube.com/user/wb9kmo.
And back by popular demand, AMSAT Area Coordinator and
SBARC’s own Ken Owen, N6KTH, will demonstrate making satellite contacts
on his handheld during actual satellite passes. We get requests for this
every year and Ken’s enthusiasm for it is contagious. Check out
his website at www.n6kth.com
and click on the Satellites link for more information.
Come and see what’s new with the ARES Van used
for emergency communications and our nimble Rover vehicle that
we use for public outreach. Both will be on hand for our antenna and alternate
power needs during the Hamfest.
Along with the delicious barbecue, see the flier for
neat prizes again this year including the Grand Prize ICOM IC-7000 HF
to 70cm all mode transceiver. Buy your tickets for the Grand Prize and
Secondary Prizes, and the barbecue, using the order form on the back side
of the flier.
The first 100 orders will be entered into the Early Bird
drawing for a Grundig G5 AM/FM/SW/SSB receiver, which is popular among
hams for casual listening on the bands. Buy your prize and/or barbecue
tickets by mail and you won’t have to wait in line, and the ticket
orders help us determine how many people to expect. When you arrive, we’ll
have your tickets ready for pickup in your preregistration packet.
Come a day or two before the Hamfest and enjoy a weekend in beautiful
Santa Barbara. Make your room reservations early. Take in a show at the
Gladwin
Planetarium in the Natural History Museum. See the shops on the wharf,
or walk along the breakwater at the Harbor.
Or stroll the peaceful grounds of the Stow
House and Goleta
Depot Railroad Museum.
We hope you’ll take away some nice prizes from
our Hamfest. After you’ve had dessert and the prizes are all raffled
and the Grand Prize is drawn, you’ll be all set for the drive home.
Do drive carefully. We’ll see you in August!
Dave Hackleman, K6VML
Steve Morse KI6HGH
2008 SBARC Hamfest Chair
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